Name: Performance, Place and Politics: Community Roundtable at daphne
Start: 2025-10-05T14:30:00-04:00
Location: Centre d'art daphne

Performance, Place and Politics: Community Roundtable at daphne

Venues, art-spaces and cultural organizations have a long history of serving as sites for community activism, the creation of political solidarities, and the enactment of art-actions with intended political impacts and consequences. Precisely how can, and do, cultural spaces advance causes of social justice? What forms of solidarity across borders of identity and ideology might be needed to collectively push-back against the regressive political forces seemingly on the rise globally? How can networks of progressive cultural spaces be created, sustained and grown even when they each individually may have precise and localised social and political commitments, interests and mandates? At a moment of time when it seems clear that broad and maximally inclusive networks of solidarity are needed to fight against regressive and pernicious political agents and movements, what role can creative spaces play, and how can they contribute to such networks? How can networks of care be created by and for such spaces, so that they can act effectively as agents for positive social change?
This roundtable will be moderated by Mostafa Henaway (Immigrant Workers Centre) with Marlyne (Sweet Like Honey), Diego Aguirre Fernández (Radio Nopal, Mexico City), Lori Beavis (daphne Gallery) and Nadah El Shazly (independent performer and curator).